01/06/2010
Vetreria Vistosi and the family goodbay to the grand master Luciano Vistosi
A death in the world of glass lovers, Luciano Vistosi one of the most famous glassmaker of our times and heir of a dynasty, which since the sixteenth century has had an uninterrupted glassmaking activity in Murano.
14th May 2010, a day of mourning for the glass lovers. Luciano Vistosi, one of the most famous glass Master of our times and heir of a dynasty, which since the sixteenth century has had an uninterrupted glassmaking activity in Murano, passed away.
Luciano Vistosi was born in 1931 in a marvellous island of the Venetian lagoon; he spent his childhood and most of his adolescence in his family’s kiln, specialized in the production of industrial products, where he learnt to know and love the art of blown glass working. When he was a boy, he decided to interrupt the studies to undertake his artistic and entrepreneurial training; together with his uncle Oreste and his brother Gino he founded “Nuova Vetreria Vistosi”, aiming at the realization of products connected with the most recent researches in the design field. The gained experience induced him to test new shapes and realize unique and particular sculptures, working and blowing raw glass blocks. In 1968 his first opening took place by Galleria Alfieri in Venice and this officially opened the street to fame. From this moment national and international successes came after each other: Milan, Vicenza, Florence, Aosta, Madrid, Köln, Düsseldorf, Munich, Segovia, London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Osaka, Washington and San Paolo are only some of his exhibitions during the hears. Still today a lot of his collection are considered real cult objects in the field of design. Impossible to forget the Neverrino, Munega, Lepanto, Bissa and Bissona lamps, a lot of which are still produced today by Vetreria Vistosi.
Luciano Vistosi has surely been an illuminato also from an entrepreneurial point of view. He was one of the first artists to understand that Murano glass should be presented to the world and directly suggested, offering its models to selected, cultured, attentive customers and at the same time demanding singularity. He gave the fundamental contribution for the development of Vistosi Trademark, going beyond conservatism and towards the growth and international fame. Thanks to him, Vetreria Vistosi started to collaborate with some of the biggest international designers such as Angelo Mangiarotti, Vico Magistretti, Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, Peter Pelzel, Albert Leclerc, Gae Aulenti, Sergio Asti and others.
Matteo Moretti chief executive of Vetreria Vistosi and Giancarlo Moretti’s son, who in 1989 took over the trademark, expresses today his sorrow:
“I have heart about Luciano Vistosi’s death with deep sadness. For Moretti family and me Luciano has been first of all Mentor, besides being a big artist and entrepreneurial illuminato. His humanity and extraordinary refinement will remain forever in our mind and surely in the minds of those people who have had the pleasure to know him. I, Moretti family and Vistosi want to express our most sincere sorrow to his wife, daughter and people close to him”.
Limited edition
Vetreria Vistosi will create a limited edition collection to remember Luciano Vistosi’s art and creativity with his most important works and the number zero one will remain forever by our company seat.
